Clothes-boiler.



W. LlNDEBE-RG.

CLOTHES BUTLER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.1I. 1914.

1 1 54,786 Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

Application filed August 11, 1 914. Serial No. 856,290.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIA M LINDEBERG, a citizen of United States, residing at Miles City, in the county of Custer, State of Montana, have invented certain ;i1ew and'useful Improvements in Clothes-Bnilers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description .of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to ,inake and use the same.

This-invention relates; to clothes boilers and has special reference to an improved boiler and draining attaichment therefor.

The principal object of the invention is to provide an improved and simplified clothes boiler and draining attachment. 7 A second object of the invention is to provide an improved adjusting means for such a boiler and attachment.

A third object Off tl'le invention is to provide an improved latch device for such adjusting means.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in general of certain details of construction and combination hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views and Figure 1 is a vertical "longitudinal median section of a boiler and attachment constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the boiler and attachment". Fig. 3 is an end view of the device, a portion of the boiler being broken away. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail on the line 4-l of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail on the line 55 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a detail on the line 66 of Fig. 5.

In carrying out the objects of the invention, there is provided a boiler body 10 of the usual oblong shape and having at each end a handle 11. This body is also provided at each end with an upstanding ratchet bar or standard 12 provided with a vertically spaced series of openings 13.

- The draining attachment consists of a reticulated basket formed by a bottom ring 14 braced intermediate its ends by cross braces 15 and covered with woven wires 16.

Extending upward from this ringare vertical members 17 connected at then upper usual manner.

ends by a ring 18 and connected between the upper and lower rings by side wires 19. At each end of the upper ring is mounted a handle member 20 having a bar 21 spaced from the inner part thereof so that a respective bar 12 may slide in the opening between this bar 21 and the inner end of the handle. Each handle is also provided with a second cross bar 22 at each end of which a socket 23 is formed in the handle sides and in these sockets are received the ends of leaf springs 24. The bars 21 and 22 of each handle are provided with alined openings wherein are mounted the pawl plungers 25 which are adapted to engage selected openings 13 in the bars 12, being urged thereto by the springs 2 1 through the'central portions, of which said plungers pass and to which the plungers are secured. Each plunger is provided with a finger grip '26.

In use, the attachment or basket is placed in the body with the bars 12 in proper position. The clothes are then placed in the basket, the latter being in its lowermost po sition, and the boiling performed in the WVhen it is desired to drain the clothes the handles of the basket are grasped in such manner that the finger grips are engaged and the plungers moved outwardly. The basket is then raised and when at the desired elevation the grips are released so that the plungers may engage the desired holes in the bar 12 and hold the basket in its desired elevated position.

There has thus been provided a simple and efficient device of the kind described and of the character specified.

It will be obvious that many minor changes may be made in the form and con:

struction of this invention without departing from the material principles thereof. It is not therefore deslred to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described but it is wished to include all such as come properly within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is The combination with a receptacle having upstanding bars at its ends provided with vertically spaced openings, of abasket movable vertically in the receptacle, handles on the ends of the basket consisting of side bars, spaced transverse bars supported by the side bars, a plunger slidably supported by the transverse bars, one of the transverse bars having sockets formed therein, a bowed Custer and State of Montana, this 3 day of spring having its ends fixed in the sockets Aug. 1914.

and rigidly connected to the plunger said spring serving to normally hold the plimger WILLIAM LINDEBERG' 5 engaged in selected openings in the upstand- In the presence of' in bars. J. H. BOHLING, Jr.,

igned at Miles City, in the county of O. C. HAYNES. 

